2007-12-09 14:09:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Vietnam was part of the French colony of Indochina (along with Laos and Cambodia). After the fall of France in the Summer of 1940, the French colonies were cut off and Japan moved in to occupy Indochina.
The French did not resist Japanese occupation until 1944 and their revolt was quickly put down.
The local Vietminh resistance was much more effective and received support from the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the fore runner of the CIA). One OSS operative, Major Archimedes Patti, communicated to Washington his admiration of the Vietminh leader, Ho Chi Minh and urged his superior to further support him, seeing Ho as more nationalist than communist.
When Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent nation. France wanted its colony back and sent troops to re-occupy southeast Asia. Ho's Vietminh began a resistance that led to thirty years of war before Vietnam became a united independent nation in1975.
2007-12-09 15:05:58 · answer #1 · answered by wichitaor1 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Vietnam Wwii
2016-12-12 10:32:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
David above nailed it, but one interesting note. One of the staff of China's military leader Shiang Kia-shek was a young Ho Chi Mihn, and he didn't like the way General "Vinegar" Joe Stillwell treated the Chinese military leaders. Stillwell called Kia-shek "the peanut" in front of anyone that might be listening. After the war, France try to re-claim the Indochina colonies, most went to war to kick the French out.
2007-12-09 14:31:39 · answer #3 · answered by John S 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was occupied by the Japanese. Ho Chi Minh had returned in 1941from France, I think he had been in France, Great Britain and the US. The US funded Ho to harass the Japanese and assist any US Pilots shot down by the Japanese, that he could.
It was kinda sorta still a French Colony.
2007-12-09 14:28:53 · answer #4 · answered by Stand-up philosopher. It's good to be the King 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was part of French Indo-China which also took up parts of Laos, and Cambodia along with Vietnam.Japan occuiped it 1940 and until the end of the war it was mosty under jap control.
2007-12-09 14:12:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
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neither side had any advantage in starting a war
2016-04-08 13:42:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋